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Minister for National Security and Legal Affairs, Rayburn Blackmoore–who is also the incoming chair of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Council of Ministers–has said that, notwithstanding the tremendous work done over the years, there are still a number of issues that need to be addressed collectively as a council and as a sub-region.<\/p>\n
Blackmoore made the statement at the Second Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers for Immigration held at the State House Conference Centre recently.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe OECS from inception has been a symbol of regional integration and has built over the years a reputation for doing things together as a sub-region,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd this second meeting of the Council of Ministers of Immigration is a further testament and commitment to advancing and furthering OECS integration on immigration matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore, Blackmoore mentioned that these issues are not limited to building the infrastructure to make interregional travel easier.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some very critical issues that we must deal with frontally as councils and as a sub-region,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
Fundamentally, he believes that the whole issue of contingent rights should not only be for OECS nationals, \u201cbut to third parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are issues therefore that we must deal with frontally as a region,\u201d Blackmoore reiterated.<\/p>\n
In his explanation, Blackmoore said, \u201cA number of us migrated for the purpose of study and we met our significant others, we got married and some of them are not from the OECS. Some of them are not nationals from the OECS, but we believe going forward that they too should be able to have some of the same rights that OECS nationals have.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pointed out that this includes the ability to buy property and own property within the OECS.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will benefit from that as a nation as we seek to grow Dominica,\u201d Blackmoore stated.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cI think this will add value to the respective economies within the OECS catchment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for National Security and Legal Affairs, Rayburn Blackmoore–who is also the incoming chair of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Council of Ministers–has said that, notwithstanding the tremendous work done over the years, there are still a number…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":301663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,286,77,235,313,305,9,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-development","category-governance","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-immigration","category-migration","category-news","category-politics","category-regional"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n